Thursday was a very busy day for all of the seventh graders in science class! We immediately began working. Ms.D had already written on the white board what we had to do during that class, we had to begin by giving in our notes that we should have done for homework, if someone wasn't there, they are due tomorrow, and you are supposed to read pages 6-13 in your Cells science book, and take as many notes as possible. We did not have time to review all the information, so instead we immediately continued working on our compound machines! They were supposed to be due last time, but since the teams had not been able to complete everything, we were given 15 minutes to finish our compound machines and get the working and set! So each team got to work:
The Cookie Monsters (Karin, Jakub, Me, Courtney, Maria Chiara, and David), had to work a bit more on getting the chain that brings the balls on top working and to not let it get stuck.
The Evil Elves (Davide, Ghazaleh, Emilija, Tamara, Ben, and Nathan) instead had to finish building the compound machine itself!
These are the two groups at work!
First, the cookie monsters trying to get the chain to work!
Second, the Evil Elves testing if their ramp works, and fixing it!
When the 15 minutes were done, both teams were pretty satisfied with their work and the team effort that had gone into building these machines! So the both teams backed away from their work, and each team picked ONE team member to turn the chain during the test, the Evil Elves picked Davide, while the Cookie Monsters picked Karin!
Here are the Evil Elves at their final test!
Here are the Cookie Monsters at their final test!
So the results were...... EVIL ELVES...... 3 out of 4 ramps complete!!!! (APPLAUD)!
and the COOKIE MONSTERS...... 4 out of 4 ramps complete!!!! (APPLAUD)!
After the very exiting hour, Ms.D gave us a five minute break to rest and relax...because after that, one of the most exiting parts of the compound machine came....to take it DOWN!!!
The whole class got busy to work, and each team had a different method, the Evil Elves took down everything and then sorted everything into bags, while the Cookie Monsters sorted the things while taking them down. The class worked hard for the rest of the block, and the compound machines were almost over by the time the class was over, so we stayed in at break for a little longer just to be able to finish the compound machine and be able to close the whole chapter. The cookie monsters soon after finished, and they packed up and left. The Evil Elves stayed in a bit more, and little after also finished, concluding this year's...SIMPLE MACHINES!
We were also given a short homework: you have to high-lilght all the important facts that you think are relevant on the sheet that Ms.D gave us, called Building Blocks Of Life- The Parts Of A Cell, and put a * next to any word or phrase we did not understand or would like Ms.D to explain!
Here are two websites in case you want to learn something more about cells and their structure!
Hey! I am really sorry, i do not know why all the other videos and images did not work, I will fix it tomorrow, so please comment afterwards!!
ReplyDeleteValentina - Thanks for your note here in the comment, but unfortunately this was never fixed :( You have covered in general what we did during class well. But you have not really gone into any scientific depth about simple or compound machines or what you had already read about cells. I realize we did not discuss it in class, but you could have gone into more depth based on your reading. Your attempt to use movies is great, but its unfortunate that only one works. I like the two links about cells and feel they provide good general information, but you forgot the link to Moodle. I am glad you included the date in your title, but your labels I feel are incomplete. You have met some of the requirements on the rubric and skipped others. Your sentence structure, grammar & spelling all look good. In the future, be sure to review all instructions and follow what is expected from the rubric more closely. ~Ms. D.
ReplyDeleteHey Vale!!! Well, that was an okay post, but I cant't really say that it was an improvement from your last post!!! First, you have absolutely no pictures! You have too much spaces between the sentences!!! Your colors, actually only one color made your post boring. Nice viedo though... I also agree with Ms.D - you never changed your post :( The overall information was good!!! But I hope that next time you would do better!
ReplyDeleteHey Valentina,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post, and you have definitely improved! You had an awesome videe, the date in your title, and much more. Like Ms. D and Tamara said, you never changed your post so I am going to have to comment to that. You are also missing a link to Moodle. I think that you could have explained more about what you read in your textbook during class, because the science aspect of this post isn't too good. Other than that, I think that this post is pretty good with exciting voice and fun stuff! :)